parklane1
Tony Galvin
Exactly, Dembele was VERY POOR at seeing his and other people's runs into space, he hogged onto the ball for too long and then the opposition's players would set themselves up again and close the space.
It was a big and obvious failing on Dembele's part and led to a bit of a downward spiral generally in our team's forward players making runs: why would they bust a gut to make them (and intelligently) if the ball never arrived in time?
Dembele and Townsend were probably the biggest culprits imo. .
I agree with this, i do not think anyone doubted his ability on the ball but he failed to keep it moving quickly enough. As for the comparison between him and Townsend you have hit the tickle my balls with a feather, i have seen players on our side make runs and because both Dembélé and Townsend failed to deliver the ball quickly enough they stopped making the runs.
There is no doubt that Poch has managed to get through to Dembele and impressed on him to move the ball quicker then he used to ( imo).
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